From owner-freebsd-scsi Thu Jun 22 7:31:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Received: from pan.salford.ac.uk (pan.salford.ac.uk [146.87.255.104]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F40DD37BA49 for ; Thu, 22 Jun 2000 07:31:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from M.S.Powell@salford.ac.uk) Received: (qmail 4413 invoked by alias); 22 Jun 2000 14:31:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 4407 invoked from network); 22 Jun 2000 14:31:30 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO plato.salford.ac.uk) (146.87.255.76) by pan.salford.ac.uk with SMTP; 22 Jun 2000 14:31:30 -0000 Received: (qmail 22075 invoked by uid 141); 22 Jun 2000 14:31:29 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 22 Jun 2000 14:31:29 -0000 Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 15:31:29 +0100 (BST) From: Mark Powell To: freebsd-scsi@freebsd.org Subject: Xiotech Magnitude and QLogic experience? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-scsi@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, We've been presented with a tender for a large-scale storage system using fibre channel. It's based upon the Xiotech (www.xiotech.com) Magnitude system. http://www.xiotech.com/cgi-bin/magnitude.pl It's to be used for storage with Netware and UNIX using differing areas of the disk. Looks good. However, I've had no experience of FC before. I notice 4.0S supports the QLogic cards. I'd like to know whether Magnitude and a QLogic card under 4.0S would function happily. Is FC as open standard as SCSI? Xiotech do their own FC cards, but of course they aren't supported. Would the QLogic be just as good? Cheers. Mark Powell - UNIX System Administrator - Clifford Whitworth Building A.I.S., University of Salford, Salford, Manchester, UK. Tel: +44 161 295 5936 Fax: +44 161 295 5888 www.pgp.com for PGP key M.S.Powell@salfrd.ac.uk (spell salford correctly to reply to me) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-scsi" in the body of the message